Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[John Iacoletti]

So Markham is a dingbat/oddball/whatever according to you lot,

Do you prefer Joseph Ball?s ?utter screwball??

[Thomas Graves]

Do you prefer Joseph Ball?s ?utter screwball??

When he said that, I thought he was talking about someone on this forum who can only see "blobs" when he looks at photos and films.

-- MWT   

[Thomas Graves]

So Markham is a dingbat/oddball/whatever according to you lot, yet has perfect memory when it comes to remembering precise times.

Pssst Crapman.... Mrs Markham didn't need to be a genius to know what time that she was required to be at the restaurant and ready to go to work.   So she knew what time the bus arrived ( 1:12) to get her to the restaurant on time.  Markham wanted to be at that bus stop a few minutes before it's scheduled arrival time (1:12)   Thus she was on her way to the bus stop at 1:06 when she saw officer JD Tippit shot by a young man who was wearing a tan jacket with a WHITE shirt beneath the jacket and black slacks.  But prior to the murder she had watched Tippit tailing the young man who was walking east on the south side of 10th street. At the very time that she was watching Tippit stop and call the young man over to his cruiser Mrs Roberts was observing Lee Oswald standing at a bus stop in front of the rooming house at 1026 N Beckley....Which was a mile away from 10th and Patton.....

Crapman?

[Bill Chapman]

So Markham is a dingbat/oddball/whatever according to you lot, yet has perfect memory when it comes to remembering precise times.

Pssst Crapman.... Mrs Markham didn't need to be a genius to know what time that she was required to be at the restaurant and ready to go to work.   So she knew what time the bus arrived ( 1:12) to get her to the restaurant on time.  Markham wanted to be at that bus stop a few minutes before it's scheduled arrival time (1:12)   Thus she was on her way to the bus stop at 1:06 when she saw officer JD Tippit shot by a young man who was wearing a tan jacket with a WHITE shirt beneath the jacket and black slacks.  But prior to the murder she had watched Tippit tailing the young man who was walking east on the south side of 10th street. At the very time that she was watching Tippit stop and call the young man over to his cruiser Mrs Roberts was observing Lee Oswald standing at a bus stop in front of the rooming house at 1026 N Beckley....Which was a mile away from 10th and Patton.....

Oswald positively ID'd on scene and as #2 Mystery guest

[Bill Chapman]

Do you prefer Joseph Ball?s ?utter screwball??

Ball's 'utter screwball' who positively ID'd mystery guest #2 as the killer

[Bill Chapman]

LOL. He stopped jogging and immediately shot Tippit. No Tippit following him slowly. No little chat. No time for Tippit to exit the car and walk around the front.

Tests show he could have walked (briskly) to the scene in 11 minutes.
Trotting at least part of the way would make a difference.

[Martin Weidmann]

Ball's 'utter screwball' who positively ID'd mystery guest #2 as the killer

Which only shows just how unreliable eyewitness identification can be and how badly the line up were set up.

Only a fool would rely on the vague "identification" by someone considered to be a "screwball".....

[Martin Weidmann]

Tests show he could have walked (briskly) to the scene in 11 minutes.
Plus Earlene didn't have a stopwatch on Oswald.

Even if he left the roominghouse at 1pm and covered the distance in 11 minutes he would still arrive after Bowley did. And Bowley did have a watch!